I believe the rumours of this website's death have been greatly exaggerated.

That being said, where's the fun in NOT jumping on an overly dramatic bandwagon?PHA+PGRpdiBzdHlsZT0idGV4dC1hbGlnbjogY2VudGVyOyI+PGlmcmFtZSB3aWR0aD0iNDMyIiBoZWlnaHQ9IjI2OCIgc3JjPSJodHRwOi8vd3d3LnlvdXR1YmUuY29tL2VtYmVkL2xfNkFDMnUwRTRFP2F1dG9wbGF5PTAiIHNjcm9sbGluZz0ibm8iIGZyYW1lYm9yZGVyPSIwIiBzdHlsZT0iYm9yZGVyOiAwcHggbm9uZSB0cmFuc3BhcmVudDsiPjwvaWZyYW1lPjwvZGl2PjwvcD4=

Varg memes aside, thats why I love him. He triggers do gooders so much due to his beliefs, which people will happily portray as destructive while sipping on a Starbucks latte and scrolling though an iPhone. Varg himself chills out on a self sufficient farm far away from other people. No one better to shove a mirror in their hypocritical faces.

That's one thing I do teach pupils - most people bluff and back down instantly.

Now I'm curious about what you teach them to do in the cases when it isn't a bluff.

One thing that's very important to teach people in Krav is that you win 100% of the fights you walk away from. Never, ever go looking for a fight. An actual self-defense fight is insanely dangerous, will cost thousands of dollars in legal fees, and you will be hearing from your opponent every year with lawsuits and counter suits for medical bills, or trauma, therapy, etc...However if you enter what I call a 'Krav Universe' where you are suddenly fighting for your life, don't lose. That's not a fight you can afford to lose, and there is no morality in fighting. Nothing is off limits, nothing is unfair. If you have to smash someone with a coffee mug, push them into traffic, stab them with a pen, whatever, do so.

In the hypothetical case of a bar bully, you never want to openly just challenge someone. But if he's actively trying to fight you, number one thing to do is protect your head, and number two is to constantly shout for help and that you're being attacked. Now this is not to actually get help - not really. The help is useful. The shouting is for any police reports later. You want witnesses to go 'Oh yeah, I heard CaitSeith shouting for help. He sounded really scared' and 'SilentPony kept attacking him even after CaitSeith shouted for him to stop'

It makes your attacker look even worse, and it makes whatever you did to him - smash a beer bottle on his head and slash his face with the jagged edges for example - perfectly justifiable because you felt your life was threatened and your attack was actively ignoring verbal commands to stop. And that's something we actively train. When we run drills and scenarios, we are expected to shout out 'Help help!' or 'He's attacking me' or 'Back away! Help help!'

I leave you all to your own devices for 5 hecking minutes and this is what I come back to? Should send you all to your rooms without dinner.

Seriously though, you guys have gotten me through some goddamned bad times. You've made me laugh, cry, want to gouge my eyes out sometimes... but I always came crawling back to you. If this site goes, I'll be damn proud I was ever a part of it.

Varg memes aside, thats why I love him. He triggers do gooders so much due to his beliefs, which people will happily portray as destructive while sipping on a Starbucks latte and scrolling though an iPhone. Varg himself chills out on a self sufficient farm far away from other people. No one better to shove a mirror in their hypocritical faces.

All I can say is he's a very pretentious nazi/white supremicist.

What is it with northern scandinavians being so racial and nazi symphethizers, and especially gung ho about their Viking past?

Sometimes good for me, other times it takes a LOT of effort to open a thread. This was one of those times.

Anyway.

OT: Treating every post like my last, thankful for the years here and I hope the best for the users as they find other haunts. This place was a hive of activity for many years I suppose could be formative for me, glad I was able to enjoy it.

ResonanceSD:Let's aggressively moderate the users with no consistency then take a weak-ass position on issues affecting gaming, then blame the audience

- Some super successful website, somewhere. Oh wait that was you lot.

Bitter until the very end. Good show.

If their last contribution on the grave of the escapist is an epitaphs of what caused its demise, it is still being infinitely more beneficial to the world than the actions of the ones that so eagerly rushed it to the grave in the first place.

Addendum_Forthcoming:The 504s and 502s seems to have drastically reduced. There's no more bots rushes. So that would suggest people have fixed things, right? Which is a good sign...

True, although there's still plenty of stuff busted. Things are looking up slightly.

But NOT ENOUGH to prevent me from being deliciously dramatic about it:

But the page, loading lonely on the placid screen, displayed onlyThat one word, as if its soul in that one word it did outpour.Nothing farther then it uttered, not a thread did not stutterTill I scarcely more than muttered "Other forums have flown beforeOn the morrow it will leave me, as my Hopes have flown before."Quoth the page "504."

Well... as long as your drama is delicious, I can't fault you for it.

Can I get a childhood friend of yours murdered by a 504 error as you fall to your knees, cradling their head as they drift into oblivion and death in the rain?

The Escapist, the site that folded faster to CIG than Gawker did to Hulk Hogan; truly the site of the "ethics and journalism" crowd.

As a Derekologist I'm not going to miss this site in the slightest...but as a Ponibooru refugee, I sincerely sympathise with those of you who will. I wholeheartedly will you all well in your future endeavours and luck in finding a new home o7